Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-21
IMMIGRATION.
The Dallas Convention Permanently
Organized With Ex-senator
Maxey as Chairman.
4 Committee Appointed to Formulate q
Course Of Action to b. Reported to
the Convention To-Day.
The Inastion Of the Railroads . General
Subject for Uafavorabls Comment.
The Convention Ignored.

Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX, Dec. 20-All solid men
Every man among the delegates to :hs
Dallas immigration Convention was solid
Men OF means, business sen Sc, and alive
to the best interests of the state. It wal
8 peculiar audience to look upon. There
were no ladies' present, no curious spec
tators, no one "doing the languid," nc
one with a scheme Occssi onslly the
head and lusty lungs CT politician were
seen and heard, but he was
not numerous-he did not seen
to colonize - there was just
enough of him to lend tone and variety to
the substantial phslanx OF business men
The opera house was not heated
through some mistake or other, and the
newspaper men rubbed their fingers and
listened to the music made by their chat
teriug teeth-their own teeth-and the
audience was blue with cold.
At 10 O'Clock Mr.. J. S. Daugherty came
to the front Of the stage and after posing
bright shoemaker's hammer aloft fol
sometime undecidedly let it drop on the
table snd called "order" in stentorian
tones, which was obeyed meekly by the
audience. The operahouse was so full of
delegates that some of them had to mount
the stairs and secure
SEATS IN THE GALLERY.
The lower portion of the house was
labeled with numbers of few Senatorial
districts, and between these delegations
secured seats as best they could.
"Read the resolutions" said Chairman
Daugherty.
Msjor J. T. Elliott sppro ached the
footl ghts and read the proceedings held
by the merchants and business men of
Dallas, shortly after the immigration
agitation was started by THE GAZETTE
The reading Of the resolutions elected
considerable app!ause-ir fact, they were
received with enthusiasm. When Major
Elliott finished reading the resolutions
Captain j. S. Dsugherty arose aud read q
speech which for cold facts and irresist-
sble logic has never been surpassed any
where. Captain DAugherty read slowly,
his enunciation was distinct and his tones
measured and impressive. Everybody
listened to 1t as ty revelation and drsD
down his words with eagerness 1t was
g business speech by business man
to business men, and while there
were no sky-scraping sentences or
periods, built especially for the exeericse
OF resonant lung 20 wer, 1t carried more
weight and had Hore effect than could all
the eloquence Of rhetoric. Nor was II
dreary or tiresome, by any means. 1t
was carefully prepared and nicely worded
and the peroratlon was "sweetened" just
enough with flowers OF language to leave
nice impression. Captain Daugherty
spoke as follows:
MR.. J s. DAUGHERTY'S REMARKS.
Gentlemen and Fellow Citizens-The
hearty response with which the resolu-
lions that have just been read has met
from the citizens of our state throughout
its broad eXpanse is evidence that the
subject matter is thought to be CT very
great importance to them. And the
large and representative delegations they
have selected to consider and act upon
the questions therein presented augurs q
satisfactory solution OF them. These
questions are:
i. IL an increased flow Of law-abidipg,
industrious immigration and capital to
our state desirable?
2. Can we, IS citizens, bring 1t about?
8 How best to do i?
To large majority the affirmative Of
the hrst two questions is considered self
evident.
But when it comes to contributing in
cash TO movement to carry 1t out, we
are called upon to consider: Who are
beneftedf How are they benz fitted and
to wtrat extent?
To q proper consideration Of these
questions We should lay aside all local
jealousies and rivslries and preiudices
and heretofore established policies, so as
to enable US to fiud the truth il possible,
and do justice and equity to all interests
as nearly as practicable. When it comes
to make an investment of money the ques-
ton is not whether the investment pre-
sented is good one, but whether it is the
best possible use that can be made OF the
money. And the question with Us to-day,
IS committee of the whole on the con-
dition OF our state, is not. whether il is
prosperous, but whether it is in the best
possible condition that we as citizens
can, by our united efforts, make it.
The citizens of Dallas in looking over
the field decided II was not; and that an
Increased flow Of immigration and capital
would be beneficial. And we have invited
you here to-day to consider the subject
in which We are all equally Interested, to
see il by united effort we cannot give ad-
ditional momentum to the wheel of for
tune that will bring increased prosperity
TO Us all. Why will an increased q w of
law-abiding, industrious immigrants with
capital De beneficial to us? To decide
this question let Us examine its effect
upon our great agricultural, commercial.
live stock, mining and manufacturing in
dustries.
immigration will furnish to the farmer
aud to the landowner an increased de-
nand for the lease and purchase of their
lands and more reliable labor with which
to work them, Increasing both their value
and their producing capacity; not only
this, there is large portion If our state
where the annual rainfall at present Is
not sufficient to guarantee it to be re-
liable agricultural district, and IL has
been demonstrated in the settlement of
Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and
this portion Of our own state that the
rainfall increases In proportion to
the number of acres of plowed
land. Then, instead of waiting
for our children and grand
children to develope the vast plains OF our